After a decade of creating a multitude of online accounts, with a plethora of usernames and passwords, most people will welcome some form of consolidation. OpenID Connect 1.0 will whittle that down to just one, allowing you to use your email address to identify yourself online and to authenticate.

OpenID Connect 1.0 is a profile of OAUTH 2.0, an IETF Internet Draft. The OpenID Foundation Members include Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. This group collectively serves a critical mass of American consumers, and if they support one method of authentication, there will be an overwhelming advantage for web sites to adopt it. Read more here…